Hi Colleen….very interesting and shocking. Thank you for sharing this. I wish we could ‘gang up’ on all these nasty Imers…lol. I came across you a while back and have never forgotten the help n kindness you extended to me. For sure, your ‘special’ qualities are deserving much success. Big Hugs….XX

What a terrible thing to happen to you! It was even worse to realise that what happened to you could also have happened to me. I usually I get a feeling with people whether they are to be trusted or not and fortunately it has not happened to me often that my feeling let me down. However with this internet business there are so many people that are untrustworthy without any form of ethics, that I find it very hard to trust any of them, especially because I do not really have indepth knowledge of computersystems. I have a couple of people I have put my trust in and I hope that they’ll prove in the end to be worthy of it!

Ouch !! There is an old saying “no such thing as a free lunch”. The scary thing is how does find out whether one’s site has been stolen? There’s a thought for some clever developer-how about it Colleen?

I haven’t had the exact same experience, however, I have had several of my articles stolen or rather copied from some of my sites.

Most of the time the article still had my name as the author, but not all the time. Sometimes whoever took the article substituted another name. Sometimes my article was on their site with no author named. It was not the same person all the times, or at least I don’t think it was since there were a lot of different sites involved over a period of time.

Those articles were all on my sites and not ones I had submitted to article directories.

So it does happen and unfortunately it usually is not worth it to pursue damages. Yes you can ask the person to take it off their site, but if it is on a lot of other sites or you have a lot of articles that has happened to it is probably not worth it.

This was a few years ago, but If I checked some of the many hundreds of articles I have written and have on my sites now, I’ll bet money that some of the articles have been stolen and placed on other sites.

But I will read the second half about this and see what you say about it.